Archive for June, 2007
DeskTop Ice Cream Maker.
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I’m a nut for ice cream. I’d weigh 600 lbs if I let myself go. Unfortunately I’m a diabetic. Life was grim for diabetic ice cream-a-haulics until Splenda came along. The next best thing since sliced bread. Low carb bread, of course.
Homemade ice cream was such a hassle. Either [...]
Cool Stuff from Around the Net
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This is the beginning of my more or less weekly “whenever the urge hits” compilation of cool things that I’ve found while prowling the net.
Useless but fun FLASH toy. A useless but fun way to eat up a few billion CPU cycles.
Hottest Temperature in the Universe - Whew! Get out the suntan lotion.
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Jirraff
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Today the utility right-of-way tree trimmers came to town and brought along this thing called the Jirraff. After seeing it operate, I can certainly understand the name. This gadget eliminates most of the labor associated with tree-trimming. No climbing, no chainsawing and mostly no bucket-trucks.
Posted by neonjohn on June 19th, 2007 under Cool Stuff | Comment now »
Catz are Nutz
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After many years of careful observation, I’ve finally gathered proof-positive that cats are stark raving nucking futz. Or a lot smarter than we are. Or both.
As conclusive evidence, I present Exhibit A:
Now this looks like a common ordinary can of chili and a dirty bowl. Well yeah, I guess it is. But [...]
Posted by neonjohn on June 15th, 2007 under Funny | 3 Comments »
I have seen the Future
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There are some public domain electronic books that I’m going to host on my website. They’re very good and rather than leech bandwidth from their original sources, I transferred them to my site.
How to do that was the question, as I’m stuck on dial-up and a couple of the books are over 100mb! [...]
Choices
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It’s after midnight and I’m sitting here on my front porch watching a gentle spring rain, Bob (the cat, you filthy-minded thing) in my lap and a cup of coffee by my side… OKOKOK, enough gloating about my semi-retirement….
Since I’ve moved to my cabin here in the wonderful Tellico Mountains I’ve had that, to steal [...]
Brake Specific Fuel Consumpiton and Listeroid Slow Speed Diesels
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On the alt.energy.homepower group today this topic arose. I started a reply, ended up researching things a bit more, doing some math and decided that a blog entry was necessary. I learned a few things in the process.
First off, what we’re talking about. The Listeroid engine, here built into a very nice genset by Rocketboy
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Ubuntu on the Desktop?
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John discusses the issues that confront putting Linux of any flavor on the desktop.
Posted by neonjohn on June 7th, 2007 under Computing | 2 Comments »
